Holder for safety-razor blades.



G. M. ATKINS.

HOLDER FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES. APPLICATION FILED APR. 24, 1909.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

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HOLDER FOR SAFETY-RAZOR BLADES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 24, 1909. Serial No. 491,873.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon M. ATKINS, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Palmer, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have ,invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Holders for Safety-Razor ldlades, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for holding safety razor blades to be honed or stropped, and particularly ertains to a dGSCI'iPtlOl] of device of the c aracter indicated which comprises a holder having separable bar-like members between which the razor blade, by its intermediate portion, may be embraced, and detachable means for holding said members together for their engagements with the blade.

The object of the invention is to provide a safety razor blade holder which is of improved, simplified, and very inexpensive construction, and which is susceptible of unusually convenient usage.

blade engaged thereby The invention consists in a device of the character described constituted by parts having constructions or formations and adapted for combination, one with another, all substantially as hereinafter described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and set forth in the claim.

In the drawings :--F igure 1 is a perspective view of the holder with a safety razor and in readiness to be honed or stropped; I'ig.'2 is a central longitudinal section on line 2--2, Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 1 having separated relations. Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view on a larger scale as taken on line 4-4, Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawlngs, A represents a handle comprising a an of separable bars a a, adapted to receive a safety razor blade :1: between them,-one-of the bars having on its inner face short spaced studs 6 b to engage through the holes in, m of the razor blade and to be accommodated within correspondingly spaced sockets d d in the other bar-like member a. The provision in the separable members a a of the short studs b and the in this class of devices.

- It is to be particularly pointed out that the separable bar-like members a a comoles d is somewhat common prised in the holder and which are extended endwise beyond the stock, or handle proper f are composed of a spring metal which in the manufacture of the parts including the blade holding extremities are so formed or deflected as to have normally the capability of opening one from the other, when permitted so to do, as represented in Fig. 3, to permit the most convenient insertion or removal of the razor blade.

A practicable and improved construction of the holder is one illustrated in the longitudinal section Fig. 2, wherein it is seen that the handle or stock f is made with a longitudinal hole or deep socket g therein, the inner end portion g thereof being of decreased diameter; the pair of bars, the.

outer extremities of which have been above referred to as constitutin the blade embracin members are by their inner extremities si ewise related, connected to ether by a rivet it near their lnner ends am? confined by their riveted to other inner end portions in the portion g o the socket in'the handle which 15 of the reduced diameter, freedom for movement for the separation of the outer extremities'of the bars, by the spring reaction of the latter, being afforded by the excess of the diameter of the socket b for the greater portion of its length over the combined thicknesses of' the two metallic bars a a.

The extremities of the separable and outwardly reactin metallic 'bars, endwise be yond the ban e, are made with parallel longitudinal grooves 11 i in their opposite sides; and a metallic clip B, which has the form of -an oblated or elongated U, cross sectionally, and constructed with inturned parallel lon 'tudinal lips j j is adapted to embrace an surround one-edge portion of the razor blade, and by the lips engaging in the longitudinal grooves 71 z in the opposite sides of the bar extremities a a, hold such extremities in their contracted relations for firmly retaining the razor blade in the holder so that the exposed edge of the blade may be stropped or honed,the clip constitutin a guard for the protection of the other e go. The cross sectional loop formed or U-shaped clip being of very slight dimension from one side to the other, as clearly shown, constitutes no obstacle to the posltioning of exposed edge portion of the blade on the hone or strop at a very slight angle as is advantageous for an eflicient sharpen- Iatented Apr. 26, 1910.

In a device of the Character described, in

combination, a handle or stock having a longitudinal hole therein 0 ening to one end, a pair of bars which by t eir inner extremities are sidewise related, riveted together, and confined for a portion of their len hs within the hole in said stock and whic by their outer extremities protrude endwisec Beyond the end of the stock and have spring capabilities for normally assuming. opened re 20 lations, said outer extremities having parallel longitudinal grooves, at their 0 posite sldes, and a U-shaped metallic clip iavin inturned parallel longitudinal lips adapte to engage 1n said grooves and hold the outer extremitles of said bars in their constricted, blade embracing, positions.

Signed by nm at S ringfield, Mass, in

presence of two subscri ing witnesses.

GEORGE M; ATKINS.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWB, G. R. DRISCOLL. 

